[expert] [ProgSoc] Microsoft goes out of its way to help its customers

=A LLKB Regards Geoff Croxson --- Page me http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1120068 Senior Micro-Computing Support Officer Ph: 9514 1218 Humanities and Social Sciences Fax:9514 1041 University of Technology, Sydney

Re: [expert] mailing list software?

to administer lists... apart from management spewing over no one being told of the transfer there have been no complaints so far, Regards Geoff Croxson --- Page me http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1120068 Senior Micro-Computing

Re: [expert] Stoopid FTP Question

always type 'prompt' to turn interactive mode off, and then 'mget -R directory', and have never had any problems Regards Geoff Croxson --- Page me http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1120068 Senior Micro-Computing Support Officer

Re: [expert] question

.. I don't know if they did a version for win9xNT Regards Geoff Croxson --- Page me http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1120068 Senior Micro-Computing Support Officer Ph: 9514 1218 Humanities and Social Sciences

Re: [expert] samba

on the Linux box, set it up as a PDC and set the domain and get users to Authenticate to it. ... my 2 cents worth.. trash my suggestions if they don't sound right Regards Geoff Croxson --- Page me http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1120068

Re: [expert] Sound changes permissions?

At 04:34 16/11/99 -0900, you wrote: I don't know how to set things right again. I am very clueless concerning permissions so if someone could help me with this it would be appreciated. chown root /dev/dsp chown root /dev/audio do that as root Regards Geoff Croxson

Re: [expert] lothar problems

Geoff Croxson --- Page me http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1120068 Senior Micro-Computing Support Officer Ph: 9514 1218 Humanities and Social Sciences Fax:9514 1041 University of Technology, Sydney

[expert] compiling and extracting src.rpm's

in /var/tmp/samba-root/ Where do I go from here? or have I gone about it all wrong?(which is more likely) Regards Geoff Croxson --- Page me http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1120068 Senior Micro-Computing Support Officer Ph

Re: [expert] dhcp in NT environment

you have samba running? I don't know much about WinNT's DHCP server, but maybe it captures the Windows networking name of the PC also when allocating. If you don't have samba running then it can't capture a Windows networking name, and that maybe why.. try it out and let us know Regards Geoff

Re: [expert] FAQ or what?

, yet they make huge amounts of dough and no one cares *turns anti-M$ flame back on* From the time I first used my first *NIX till now I always search archives first/'the web' and then ask the lists how hard can it be for anyone else Regards Geoff Croxson

[expert] Dead/Defunct Processes slocate problems

not leaving them out, how do I get cron.daily to read in the new slocate file?? Regards Geoff Croxson --- Page me http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1120068 Senior Micro-Computing Support Officer Ph: 9514 1218 Humanities

Re: [expert] Can't network because of ARP

spot at each end Regards Geoff Croxson --- Page me http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1120068 Senior Micro-Computing Support Officer Ph: 9514 1218 Humanities and Social Sciences Fax:9514 1041 University

Re: [expert] adding or increasing partitions

At 09:23 21/10/99 -0400, you wrote: Currently the only way to do this in a non-destructive way is to use Partition Magic 4.0 from Powerquest. Partition Magic 5 is about to be released, you might hold off for a little to get old PM4 @ a reduced price, or get PM5 new Regards Geoff Croxson

Re: [expert] boot up -- syntax error

else # echo "Kernel $(uname -r) on $a $(uname -m)" /etc/issue fi echo "$R" /etc/issue echo "$R" /etc/issue.net echo "Kernel $(uname -r) on $a $(uname -m)&q

Re: [expert] Dynamic DNS (slightly off topic)

have to update your details through a web-based form. Its good though and I've never had any problems Regards Geoff Croxson --- Page me http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1120068 Senior Micro-Computing Support Officer Ph

[expert] Samba and Cron

Regards Geoff Croxson --- Page me http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1120068 Senior Micro-Computing Support Officer Ph: 9514 1218 Humanities and Social Sciences Fax:9514 1041 University of Technology, Sydney